A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE-GROUND PLATE OF EARL OF ESSEX...
Painted with a central loose bouquet, the lobed bleu céleste border with three floral cartouches alternating with gilt husk roundels intersected with gilt crossed myrtle branches, each beneath a moulded palm scroll enriched in gilt, the cavetto edge with similar gilt husks, within a shaped gilt line rim
93⁄4 in. (24.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Probably acquired by Madame Lair, Paris in the first half of 1770.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 21 November 2008, lot 177.
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Painted with a central loose bouquet, the lobed bleu céleste border with three floral cartouches alternating with gilt husk roundels intersected with gilt crossed myrtle branches, each beneath a moulded palm scroll enriched in gilt, the cavetto edge with similar gilt husks, within a shaped gilt line rim
93⁄4 in. (24.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Probably acquired by Madame Lair, Paris in the first half of 1770.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 21 November 2008, lot 177.
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